Website Review and Suggestions

**raistlinthewiz** · 01-16-2010, 06:18 AM

I'd like to introduce you my latest project the buzzplex.com.

After a long day of work and driving to home, i've asked my self a numerous times which movie i should watch. The problem was i'd like to watch a lately popular movie so first i had to find it out. How can we find a movie is quite popular? Asking friends, checking imdb,rottentomatoes or metacritic? Most of the time i'm quite lazy for checking all the movie-rating sites and then watching a trailer in youtube.

One day asked myself what if a site all handles this all-together? It should find the popular 'buzz' about movies and render the list to user. It should also support one-click trailer watching. It should also show the user the ratings.

So i came up with the idea and started developing buzzplex.com. So buzzplex.com is all-in-one movie,game and video 'buzz' site. It'll show you the latest buzz for the day, supports one-click trailer watching and ratings.

So anyway the sites is still under heavy development, but i wanted to see some feedbacks about the idea and site itself.

So check it on your own: http://www.buzzplex.com

**darbeey** · 02:10 PM

Very interesting website with a clean layout. I like the logo design, simple but nice on the eyes. Avatar was a great movie

**raistlinthewiz** · 01-16-2010, 04:04 PM

thanks for your comment.

actually i'm not totally done with design actually. still i need some more elements. for the functionally part it's also not complete yet. but this is an early preview.

**AlexGrim** · 01-16-2010, 04:19 PM

You have a margin above the content but not below the content, which drives me crazy. Also, the listings seem a bit empty. They have a title, but too much empty space below the title, between each entry. Is there supposed to be a description there?

**raistlinthewiz** · 01-16-2010, 05:03 PM

you're right the listings seems empty but that spaces are reserved for rottentomatoes, metacritic,game spot ratings and vice verca.

I'll keep your content positioning suggestion in mind and will fix it. thanks

**Knight13** · 01-16-2010, 07:01 PM

Very nice, i do not go to a lot of movie review sites, but this sites seems just as good a s the others and the layout is clean, and the colors go good together.

**lynxus** · 01-17-2010, 10:02 AM

Looks good.
Something seems missing but i cant put my finger on it.

Other than that, Its simple & clean.

You really could do with some kind of comment system for each video.
Also it may be an idea to have some kind of bookmarking option ( digg etc )
And also have some kind of "Submit" option, so maybe independent movie writers etc can add theirs to your site and see if people "buzzup" heir movie. and view comments about it.

Just some thoughts that will help make it "More than just a gateway to youtube videos "

**raistlinthewiz** · 01-17-2010, 11:08 AM

actually the 'buzzup' is not handled manually. i don't feed the movies to site but actually site's engine reads them from the web.

for the rest, thanks for your suggestions, i'll implement them..

**raistlinthewiz** · 01-21-2010, 08:45 AM

i'd like to note that we enabled the update engine, as of now, update engine runs every 6 hours, so that site will always present fresh buzz.

**miccharlys** · 01-21-2010, 11:28 AM

Template is very awesome but theme is not perfect. Must changes it coloring features.
Add some pictures and make it more attractive as well

**raistlinthewiz** · 01-22-2010, 10:14 AM

@miccharlys, you're right, we'll work with a professional designer to fix the site's layout & color problems.

Here's a latest update; more ratings from imdb, netflix, rottentomatoes and metacritic! We also updated the video player, which now shows related item's cover image and description. More to come soon..!

**guypier** · 01-22-2010, 11:41 AM

I like the site and that blue you are using but I think it could be a little less busy and little more web 2.0 feeling

**raistlinthewiz** · 01-23-2010, 07:50 AM

@guypier, thanks we started to work with a professial designer, we'll soon update the color scheme and so..